Automobile-goggles.



0. HOWE AUTOMOBILE GOGGLES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24. I9I5.

Patented. Sept. 11, 1917.

\VI 1 \ESSES 7 FRED G. HOWE, OF NEW-HAVEN; CONNECTICUT.

I AUTOMOBILE-GOGGLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentedlfiept. 1-11, 1917.

Application filed July 24:, 1915. SeriaI No. 41,671.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRED. C. HOWE, a

citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding in the city and county of New Haven, 5 State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile-Goggles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements 1n eye-glasses or goggles for automobilists or the like, and aims to provide improvements therein. 1

The glare from the head light or lights on approaching automobiles is blinding and injurious to the eyes of drivers and others in other automobiles, and the blinding effect of the glare upon drivers has frequently been the cause of accidents.

Means have heretofore been devised for ac protecting the drivers of automobiles from the glare of thehead lights on approaching automobiles. The means which heretofore appear to have enjoyed most favor is a disk of translucent material upon the wind at shield. The driver uses this disk as a shield keeping the disk between the on-coming head light and his eyes. In order to efi'ect this, however, considerable movements of his head and body are necessitated.

It has also been proposed to provide glasses having the u per part translucent to diminish the intenslty of the light coming to the eye. With the glasses just referred to, however, the wearer must bend his head, to and in so doing not only diminishes the light from the head light on the on-coming automobile, but also obscures his view of objects illuminated by the lights upon his own automobile. J

The present invention provides a device having advantages! over those heretofore used, and particularly permitsof the shielding of the eyes by a very slight movement of the head, and also permits of the obscur- 4e ing of the light from the on-comin automobile without obscuring the road irectly ahead illuminated by the lights of the wearers vehicle.

The invention will be more fully described in connection with the accompanyin drawin illustrating embodiments thereo In sa1d drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of eye-glasses or goggles embodying. the invention.

.Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of a glass; and

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of another glass, both embodying the invention.

In said drawing A A represent eye- 0 glasses, ground or not as lenses as may be desired, and connected to one another, and adapted to be attached to the wearer in any suitable manner. As here shown the glasses are connected by a nose piece a, 5 preferably easily bendable so that the axes of the glasses or lenses may be readilyadjusted to the distance between the eyes.

Pieces b 6 adapted to fit behind the ears of the wearer may be provided for holdingthe 7o glasses in place upon the user. The lasses or lenses may be arranged or not in ames provided with dust guards.

The glasses comprise a transparent or relatively transparent portion 0- and a translucent or opaque portion d. In fact the transparent or relatively transparent portion may be not glass at" all but simply a space. The translucent or opaque portions 01 are arranged at the sides of the go glasses. The portions d are usually at the left-hand side of the glasses, but when the rule of the road is to keep to the left, the portions 01 may be arranged upon the righthand side ofthe glasses. The transparent as portion is preferably so arranged that the field of vislon directly in front of the opening in the eye is seen through the transparent portion.

'The translucent or opaque portions may so be formed in any suitable way. The may be formed by coloring the side portion of the glass, or making the side portion of the glass of a piece of colored glass, or by affixing a piece of opaque or colored material, at or applying. a coating of a translucent or opaque substance to the surface of the glass at one side.

In use the glasses are worn by the automobilist, who normally gazes t rough the transparent or relatively transparent portion 0 thereof. 1 When an automobile or other object, approaches or is approached, havmg a glaring head light, the person wearing the glasses. sim 1y turns his head roe slightly to the right, brlnging the translucent or opaque portion at the sides of the glasses between the opening in his eyes and the source of the glaring light. The glaring light is thus so diminished or obscured as not to blind the person wearing the glasses, and the wearer of the glasses at the same time has an unobscured vision directly in front of him through the transparent or relatively transparent portion 0 of the glasses.

The invention has been used and has been found to give very satisfactory results.

The inventive idea may receive other me,- chanical expressions than those herein illus trated and specifically described.

What is claimed is Eyeglasses or goggles especially intended for the use of automobilists, comprising a pair of glasses, said glasses having light intercepting portions at one side of the axis scribing witnemes.

FRED C. HOWE.

Witnesses:

G. M. RoBmsoN, R. A, Bmermm. 

